Georg Lukács
Georg Lukács (known in Hungarian as Gyorgy Lukács; pronounced roughly like "lou-kotch") (1885 - 1971) was a Hegelian and Marxist philosopher and literary critic.His major works include:
- The Theory of the Novel, a seminal work in literary theory and the theory of genre. An early, pre-Marxist text, this work was later repudiated by Lukács, who wrote a lengthy introduction that described it as, though erroneous, nonetheless containing a "romantic anti-capitalism" which would later develop into Marxism.
- History and Class Consciousness, a major contribution to the Marxist theory of ideology and false consciousness. This work develops the concept of class consciousness and insists that "ideology" is really a projection of the class consciousness of the bourgeoisie, which functions to prevent the proletariat from attaining a real consciousness of its revolutionary position.
